02357cam a22002417 4500001000700000003000500007005001700012008004100029100002900070245019800099260006600297490004100363500001900404520131500423530006101738538007201799538003601871700002601907700002601933710004201959830007602001856003802077c12663NBER20150303152601.0150303s2014 mau||||fs|||| 000 0 eng d1 aKreiner, Claus Thustrup.10aMeasuring the Accuracy of Survey Responses using Administrative Register Datah[electronic resource]:bEvidence from Denmark /cClaus Thustrup Kreiner, David Dreyer Lassen, Soren Leth-Petersen. aCambridge, Mass.bNational Bureau of Economic Researchc2014.1 aNBER book chapter seriesvno. c12663 aFebruary 2014.3 aWe show how Danish administrative register data can be combined with survey data at the individual level and used to validate information collected in the survey. Two examples illustrate the potential of combining survey and register data. First, expenditure survey records with information about total expenditure are merged with income tax records with information about income and wealth, which is used to impute total expenditure, then compared to the survey measure. Results suggest the two measures match each other well on average. Second, we compare responses to a one‐shot recall question about total gross personal income collected in another survey with tax records. Tax records hold detailed information about different types of income, which makes it possible to test whether response errors are related to the reporting of particular types of income. Results show bias in the mean, that the survey error has substantial variance, and that the errors are correlated with conventional covariates, suggesting they are not classical. The latter example illustrates how Denmark can be used as a "laboratory" for future validation studies. Tax records with detailed information about different types of income are available for the entire Danish population and can be readily merged to survey data. aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. aMode of access: World Wide Web.1 aLassen, David Dreyer.1 aLeth-Petersen, Soren.2 aNational Bureau of Economic Research. 0aBook Chapter Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)vno. c12663.4 uhttp://www.nber.org/papers/c12663